Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Statement Regarding the Use of Cookies, Automatic Information, Advertising and Social Media on IRONMAN.com

Cookie Policy

Version dated February 28, 2017

If you – after displaying of our note regarding the use of cookies– are (i) using our website www.ironman.com (in particular by browsing on our website), and (ii) have accepted the use of cookies in your browser settings, we assume that you would like to use our products and services and thus consent to the use of cookies, applications and other technologies as described below.

Cookies

In order to make our online offerings more attractive, enable you to use certain features of our offerings and to place more targeted advertisement, we use so-called cookies and flash-cookies (also referred to as flash local shared objects) on various pages of our website which are provided either by ourselves or by third parties. Cookies are files that are stored on your device (e.g. computer, tablet or smart phone). Some of the cookies used by us are deleted at the end of your browsing session, i.e. when you close your browser, (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and enable us or our partners to identify your browser on your next visit (so-called persistent cookies).

You can configure your browser in a way that you will be informed about the fact that cookies are placed on your device and you that you will have the possibility to decide about the acceptance of cookies in the individual case or to disable the placing of cookies generally or for particular cases. The help function of the most browsers will explain how to configure your browser as described above. Furthermore, the help function will often explain what you need to do to get informed about the placement of cookies or how to disable or delete all existing cookies. Similar functionalities (e.g. flash cookies) which are provided by so-called browser add-on software may also be modified by using the preference settings of the browser add-on or via the website of the provider of the respective browser add-on, including deactivation or deletion of such functionality. Please note that if refuse to accept cookies the functionality of our website might be impaired.

Cookies might also be used in order (i) to recognize you on your next visit of our website, (ii) to display content on our website or the websites of our partners which is tailored to your interests (including online advertising), (iii) to consider your preferences, (iv) to perform reviews and analysis for the improvement of our content, products and services, or (v) to enhance the security of your data. For these purposes we use own and third party cookies.

Further Automatic Collection and Processing of Information

By accessing our website your browser automatically transmits information to our or our third party service providers' servers which will be stored, processed and analyzed; such information might allow your identification. For example, such information may include (i) your internet-protocol-address (IP-address) which connects your computer to the internet, (ii) notices of receipt and reading acknowledgments of e-mails, (iii) logins, (iv) e-mail addresses, (v) passwords, (vi) information on the computer and connection to the internet (e.g., browser type, version and number, operating system and platform), (vii) your browsing history (e.g., viewed products, search history), which we sometimes combine with similar information on other visitors and reproduce in a non-personally identifiable form as well as (viii) the entire Uniform Resource Locators (URL) click stream to, through and from our website, i.e. the order of the pages you viewed on our website including the date, time and cookie or flash-cookie number.

During your visits on our website we sometimes use JavaScript to gather, process and analyze certain information. This information include for example (i) the time needed to call up a web page, (ii) its flawed download, (iii) the duration of a visit of a certain page, (iv) information on the interaction between web pages (e.g., scrolling, clicking, mouse-overs) and (v) on leaving the website. Furthermore, we might collect additional technical information which facilitate the identification of your device (e.g., for the avoidance of abuse or for debugging purposes).

Integration of Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube)

The pages of our website embed the functionalities of several social media services such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube. These functionalities are provided by the respective social media provider. You can recognize the embedded functionality by the respective logo of the social media service on the pages of our website.

If you visit the pages of our website, a direct connection is established between your browser and the servers of the social media services. Thereby the social media services will gather the information that you have used our website along with your IP-address. If you interact with the social media service embedded function on our website, while you are logged in into your social media account (if any), the corresponding information will be transmitted directly from your browser to the social media service and will be stored there.

We would like to point out that we are neither aware of the content of the data submitted to the social media service nor its use by the social media service and, therefore, hereby reject any responsibility under any data privacy laws with respect to the collection, storage, processing, transfer and use of such data. Please consult the data protection information of the respective social media service under the following links with respect to the purpose and extent of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by the social media service as well as your corresponding rights and options regarding the protection of your privacy:

If you do not wish that the social media service attributes your visit of our website to your social media account, please log out of your social media account prior to visiting our website. Even if you are not logged into your social media account, a website with activated social media elements will continue to submit data to the social media service. During each access to such website the social media service places a cookie on your device with an identification. Because your browser automatically submits such cookies each time it connects to a social media-server, in principle, the social media service would be able to generate a profile which websites were accessed by the user with the respective identification. It would also be possible to attribute this identification to a particular person, e.g. if the user should register with the social media service at a later stage.

If you do not want the social media service to collect information about you through these cookies, you can activate the functionality "Block Third-Party Cookies" or a similar function in your browser settings. In this case, the browser will not submit cookies to the server of any third party that provides embedded content. However, when activating this function, other cross website functionalities other than the social media service embedded elements may not be available.

Creation of Pseudo Anonymous User Profiles for Web Analytics

Where we embed content from social media services and other third party websites, some websites may use Google Analytics to collect data about user behavior for their own purposes. We might as well use Google Analytics in order to collect information about user behavior on our own website. [A5] Where the aforesaid is the case, data is collected, processed and used by Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google") which compiles user profiles by using pseudonyms. These user profiles are used to analyze the user behavior and are employed in order to improve and personalize the design of our offers. For these purposes, Google uses cookies. The information generated by such cookies about your user behavior on our website is transferred to and stored on a server operated by Google in the USA.

By activating the IP-anonymization function of Google Analytics, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the entire IP-address will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and will be abbreviated there. On our behalf Google will use the collected information to analyze user behavior on our website, compile reports on website activities and to perform other services with regard to the use of our website and the internet. The IP-address submitted by your browser through Google Analytics will not be combined with other data by Google.

Opportunity to opt out: You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. Furthermore, you may prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and the data related to the use of our website (including your IP-address) by Google as well as the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the browser-plugin available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB. As an alternative to the browser plugin or for browsers used on mobile devices please click this link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de in order to prevent the recording of your user behavior by Google Analytics in the future. Please note that this function will place a so-called opt-out cookie on your device. If you delete your cookies you will have to follow the link again in order to continue to prevent the collection, transfer and analysis of your data by Google Analytics.

The pseudomyzed user profiles are not combined with other personal data of the user without an explicit and separate consent by the user.

Our website uses retargeting functions provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Park-way, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google") including the Google Remarketing Tag and the Google Dynamic Remarketing Tag which helps us to place customer-specific advertisements on partners’ websites. As set forth above, you may also reject such advertisement by blocking the placement of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser.

AdSense

Our website uses Google AdSense, a service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google") for the integration of display ads. Google Ad-Sense uses cookies which allow an analysis of the use of the website. Google AdSense also uses so called Web Beacons (invisible graphics) and other techniques enabling a so-called tracking and re-targeting. Through the Web Beacons and other techniques information like the visitor traffic on our websites are analyzed.

The information gathered by cookies, Web Beacons and other techniques regarding the use of our websites (including the IP-addresses of the users) and the delivery of advertising-formats are submitted to and stored on a server of Google in the USA. Such information might be forwarded to the contractual partners of Google. We do not assume, but cannot confirm this with certainty, that Google will combine your IP-address with other information stored about you.

As set forth above, you may reject the placement of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser.